House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters that millions of jobs will be lost if the Republican lawmakers don't pass a farm bill soon.

By Pageant Atterberry

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters that millions of jobs will be lost if the Republican lawmakers don’t pass a farm bill soon.

Earlier this year, over 60 House Republicans voted against the half-trillion-dollar bill, which sets funding for farm subsidies and other assistance, as well as food stamps. The GOP version of the bill leaves out food stamp funding, but a separate measure that they’ll vote on today would cut the program by roughly $40 billion.

“One in five kids struggle with hunger [and] this bill will jeopardize this,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi then shifted her focus to the country’s $16.7 trillion debt limit, which the Treasury Department says must be raised by the end of October. Republican lawmakers have asked the White House for spending cuts to offset a hike in the government’s borrowing ceiling.

The House passed a “clean” DHS funding bill, Tuesday afternoon, funding the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year and ending the dispute over previously attached immigration amendments.